Kevin Powell - For You Lyrics

For you for you
For you

For you for you
For you

I could stare at you all day
Even in pitch blackness
You are a beautiful genius
I draw you with the soft fingers
Around my heart
We make funny faces
With our bare feet
Laughter is the lotion
We put on our bones
After the shower
Our eyes make love
Like two birds
Twirling in a field of passion

For you for you
For you

For you for you
For you

I have never met anyone
Like you in my life
I am both excited and terrified
Excited because we have been here before
Perhaps in post-war Paris
Or the Harlem Renaissance
Two lovers swaying to jazz
And French-kissing history
While reading Zora and Langston to each other

I could stare at you all day
Even in pitch-blackness
You're my beautiful genius
Love like you
I never knew a love like you
Never knew a love like you
Love like you
All my love Is
For you for you
For you
For you for you
For you

Terrified because we are the children
Of families long abused and traumatized
We don't want to be married to destruction
We want to be free
To write love poems with our bath water
We want to be free
To burn and sage the past with our tears
This is what we dream
As our words hug tight each other
Inside the belly
Of our imagination

I could stare at you all day
Even in pitch blackness
You are a beautiful genius
You're my beautiful genius
Love like you
Beautiful genius
That's you
I never knew a
Love like you
Never knew a
Love like you
Love like you
All my love is
For you

Beautiful genius
That is you